Paskeville drilling results 'fabulous'

Adelaide Resources says results from its first round of drilling at Paskeville on Yorke Peninsula show an unexpectedly significant copper and gold discovery at the site.

The company's exploration licence stretches from Paskeville to Wallaroo, closer to the coast, but so far only an area of about 200 square metres has been drilled.

Managing director Chris Drown says the initial results have prompted it to spend more on the project and begin a follow-up drilling program starting today.

"This actually wasn't one of our highest priority targets," he said.

"We did find a large but fairly patchy sort of anomaly, it wasn't one of the best that we'd found but we were intrigued enough by it to do a little bit of drilling which is what we've done and have been very pleasantly surprised at the results, they've been fabulous."

Mr Drown says 24 air-core holes and one diamond drill hole were completed in March and the positive results have prompted an immediate follow-up drilling program.

"Taken in total the area that the soil sampling showed was potentially of interest is a pretty big area, it's about four-and-a-half by two kilometres," he said.

"We've only ... so far drilled a very, very small area, I think it's about 250 metres by maybe 200 in this first part, so we're now very keen to ... spread the focus and look further at this large area."